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BULLY CANTON'S MERCHANTS.
• BOYCOTT COMMITTEE'S FREE HAND.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE SUPPORT.
GOVERNMENT'S NEGATIVE
ATTITUDE.
[FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT
LI TSAI HSIN RETURNING TO CANTON.
AT END OF THIS MONTH:
OTHER DISTINGUISHED TRAVELLERS,
(YHOM OUR CHINESE CORRISPONDENT]
CANTON, Sept. 23rd. Maraha! Li Tsai Hsin is reported to be returning to Chaton at the end of this month, as he is nearly through with his mission to the capital Coming with the Marshal Ming Shu, Messrs. Tai Chi Tao, will probably be General Chen Liang So Ming, and other Canton notables.
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 24th, 1928.
C. SSU TU.
THE GAUGUIN OF CHINESE ART?
INTERESTING EXHIBITION ON 'SUNDAY.
[Bx E.M.B]
C. Ssu Tu is a name which may have to be reckoned with in the world of art. This young Cantonese District, of Kwangtung, and he has was born in 1909 in the Hoi Ping as yet had no real art training, even the pictures which have proved his inspiration being known only from photographs and description."
His father is a portrait painter in the Chinese style and it is clear that Su Te has profited by what he bas seen of his father's work. There is an undercurrent of the
CANTON, September Ord
Mr. Koo Ying Fan, who tried to The pickets of the anti-Japanese raise ten million dollars from the Boycott Committee are still as merchants a year ago for the re active as ever. The Harbour, the suscitation of the Central Bank of China notes when he was Commis Bund, the three Railway Stations,sioner of Finance, is expected to And all the principal thoroughfares arrive in Hong Kong to-morrow, on of the city are vigilantly guarded board the French liner Sphin Chinese caligraphical technique in day and night by the pickets. The from Saigon. Those coming with
a large proportion of the scn' him will be Mr. Tang Chiu Yaam, "merchants have been brought to former Superintendent of the Can paintings and he starts, moreover, with the inheritance of that sense their knees and seizures of goods of ton Customs. Mr. Li Sing Kaa of true composition which is so Japanese origin are of daily occur former secretary of the Ministry of
During the last few days Finance, and a few others. The racteristic of Chinese and Japan But there the Chinese in the following Japanese goods were party has been travelling abroad
sion is typically that of the West. sheets weighing about 1,200 catties: 13 rolls of cloth; 4 boxes of irun wire weighing about 180 catties; one big box of shrimps; two sacks of sharks fins; and large quantities of Dedicated cotton, piece goods, nails, chemicals and marine products.
rence.
ese art.
DISORDER IN SHANTUNG.
BRIGANDS WHO POSE AS NATIONALISTS.
瘾
WALLED CITY'S STOUT DEFENCE.
MARTIAL LAW IN TSINAN,
TaxAs, Sept. 19th.
The Chinese authorities, acting
have placed Tsinan and its suburbs under the advice, of the Japanese,
under martial law, writes a North China Daily News correspondent
This is because of the presence of bandit agents and other lawless elements.
ROUND THE POLICE
COURTS.
THE OPIUM TRAFFIC,
SOME HEAVY FINES,
For being in possession of 200 taels of opium a Chinese was on Saturday fined $15,000 with the alternative of ten months' hard labour by hir. R. E. Lindsell at the
WLA
Central Magistracy. The opium was very cleverly concealed in a
was arrested after leaving the s.. bundle of firewood. The defendant Tai Hing which had just arrived from Wuchow and while he engaging four coolies to carry a quantity of the firewood. Another man was also fined $9,000, or in Martial restrictions include Post default eight months' hard labour,, Office censorship, forbidding of for possession of 115 toels found theatrical performances and the in another consignment of fire.
holding of meetings, and also the wood bundles. posting on boarding of news- Two other Chinese ""were also papers and of gotices calculated to fined $3,000 and $1,500 for posses- disturb the pesce All property ission of 40 taels and 90 · taels
confiscated: 10 big boxes of zinc with Mr. C. C. Wu, Mr. San FoRuence ends and Sau Tu's expres subject to search or arms and am-respectively.
The Committee is determined to keep up the boycott and is knocking down all opposition. It has just installed 80 boxes, like pillar boxes, along the principal thoroughfares of Canton for any one to drop chits in telling the Committee secretly who is breaking the boycott rules.
Everything fi confidential and the the informer receives a reward of 20 per cent of the money realized from the sale of the smuggled Japanese goods thus confiscated
THE SLOGANS.
The Committee has farther writ ten up a new set of slogans warh ing the merchants who are refusing to co-operate with the Committee or are in any way breaking the rules of the boycott. These slogans are
and others for nearly a year. Mr.
This technique especially in his Sun Fo arrived in Shanghai two
oils has been compared by a critic days ago. Upon learping of the in Shanghai, where he held a return of Mr. Koo, many of the similar exhibition to that on view Canton official personager went at the offices of the Ban Lui Hong Kong this morning, to bid Magazine yesterday, to Mancini him welcome. Among those mak. ing the trip were Messrs. Fung but, a.my opinion, it is far atarer that of Gauguin, the strangest Cho Man, Li La Chao, Li ou figure of the 18th century French Fan, Hot Chung Ching, and Ad- Impressionists. There is the same miral Chen Chak,
love of strong sunlight on bright colours, the same disregard of chiaroscuro and like Gauguin he has found inspiration in the tropica
It is not known whether or not Mr. Koo will proceed to Canton or go direct to Nanking where he is urgently needed by the Nationalist Government. Marshal Li Trai Hain is is reported to have telegraphed to Canton urging Mr. Koo to pro ceed at once to the capital. But according the intter's .closest friends, Mr. Koo will most likely come to Canton first for a short rest, and then he will proceed to Nanking.
FRACAS IN CANTON · STREET.
POLICE SET ON BY MOB.
artist..
munition, and travellers arriving and leaving the city must alsa per- | AN UNTRUTHFUL CONSTABLE.
it their luggage to be searched.
Armed Robberies
...
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A Chinese public vehicle driver was arrested and charged before Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the Central Magistracy on Saturday morning for soliciting a fare in Hill Road The defendant alleged that the for Indian constable had asked money and for refusing he (defen- dant) was arrested
Sergeant Kinnaird
WAS
called
and stated that when he arrived on the scene the Indian constable was sitting beside the defendant in the car. This contradicted the evidence of the Indian constable who said that he did not get into
The writer has recently visited districts bordering on the Jap- asese-held railway zoot, and has seen some of the results" of the banditry in these places.
Isowping city was found to be well-guarded by local meg. Re Mancini, it is true, was one of the fugees had crowded into this small first painters to build up his colours but well walled city to such an ex and use mase of pigment as a tent that, many of these people factor in expression but Mancini's were sleeping in temple court palette was essentially sombre and he was above all distinguished for yards, and even in the street. The his striking use of black, a colour bandits who had been ravaging quite foreign to the art of Ganguin Towping, and Ch'itung biens for or to that of this young. Cantonese the fast two months had tried to
It is a very great pity that Mr. take the city. They planted a the car. Ssu Tu only gave Hong Kong one
3 The Magistrate dismissed the day in which to see his work, for he quickfiring mountain gun on has put all his cards on the table height near by and "dropped aease against defendant and ordered and the exhibition shows his deve dozen shells into the city. The the constable to be dealt with de lopment and his struggles in a
only casualties however were a cowpartmentally for lying in the course are oils and water colours, portraits and a donkey. CANTOS, Sept. 23rd. and landscapes, finished and un- Two Canton policemen had their finished sketches in pencil, char 2.-Those who oppose the inspec- guns taken away from them yester-coal and with the Chinese brush. tion of undesirable goods are day afternoon by a mob in the Sze On those four small walls are the Hoi Tea Shop, Man Fook Road East. works of an artist in the making. 3.-Those who are smuggling in Trouble arose when a group of fokieThere are pictures which show an boycotted goods are the run-of this shop were told by a Police extraordinary fre of genius, and ning hounds of the Imperial- oficer to move their wares from others, more dangerous to his 4-To wish to break the anti-the sidewalk and take them inside future, which show that he has a
Japanese boycott is to be the the shop as they were causing in gift of imitation,
convenience to the passers-by. These enemy of the Chinese people.
fakir were serving tea to their The store rooms in the Headquar customers right on the sidewalk, ters of the Committee are now and the path was obstructed by pretty well filled with confiscated chairs, tables and the coolie cus- goods and the Committee declares tomers. The fokia refused to obey that it will auction off such goods the order and a quarrel followed to the public. The money thus in which sharp words were passed realized will according to the direc-between the officer and the fokir. 'tors of the boycott-be- turned Meanwhile the man on patrol at over to the funds of the Promotion the street corner heard the dispute of Native Industries!
posted up in all conspicuous places and are also printed in the ver nacular press every day. A free translation of the slogans fallows [FROM OUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT.; number of different media. There
1.-Increase the anti-Japanese
Boycott Movement.
traitors,
ista:
· BOYCOTT MOVEMENT
SPREADING.
Far away
of his evidence.
The gallant defenders possessed two cast-iron cannons which were mounted on the city walls. Hav. SEQUEL TO ing stuffed these weapons with powder and bits of broken iron they fired them off at the attackers. One of these charges was lucky for ir killed edit and wounded two others Thereupon the at tackers moved up to the walls of the city for a parley. The chief asked the city magistrate for re- cognition and for regular sup plies. Who are you?" asked the inagistrate. "A section of the 2nd Brigade of the Revolutionary Army," was the answer.
"We have no official word about you," said the magistrate. "Nor have,, I any official word about
you!"
answered the bandit speaker. "If you don't at once open the gates, we will climb the walls at whatever cost!"
As a painter his chief claim to distinction is at present his intense interest in light. He loves to paint face au jour and his work reflects the dazzle' of the sun. That his pre-occupation with the effect of strong sunlight on colour bas led him to forget the value of mass and shadow is but natural in so enthus iastic and untrained an artist, but it does nothing to detract from the and at once came to the rescue. They vivid character of his inspiration. were both surrounded by the foku Mr. Ssu Tu is going next month and their supporters who had to Paris to study painting and one grown to a defiant mob by this time. cannot but feel that there his fate
**If you belong to the Southern The officers tried to use force, but hangs in the balance. That the boycott is spreading to before they could do anything the mob from the brilliant sonlight of Siam, forces, why have you taken several other parts of Kwangtung is evident had rusked them. They were badly where most of his work has been hundred of my unarmed people from the fact that there are now beaten and their guns and ammuni- done, and his own native Kwang-captive, whom you are holding to seventeen branch offices in the tion were taken away from them, tung he may lose this delight in ransom?" ask the Magistrate, who various cities of the province. Those After this the two officors staggered light and colour. As he treads the the parent official of the district. branch offices were established and back to the Police Station to get difficult path of the draughtsman This was a poser for the bandit, ofcered by the Committee in Can-help. The Police Sergesat there he may lose, as so many have be- who promised to return all cap ton and the pickets are reported to at once sent a company of well fore him, his talent, as a colourist, tives in two days time, when he armed Police to the scene. But at and bis imitative skill encouraged would expect to be allowed to en- be just as active, if not more so, than their colleagues in Canton. the approach of these officers the in the extraordinary atmosphere of ter the city, a promise which he The Committee has established mob opened fire with the two guna the rive gauche may prove his un- had no intention of keeping. branch offices in the following stolen from the policemen. The doing. But if the flame of his places:-Swatow, Kongmoon, Bun Police squad returned to fire, and genius is as bright and true as Tak Waichow, Yeung Kong, Po about twenty shots were exchanged. believe it to be, Paris will give him In the meantime the mob was sur- much and this strange foreign name Ai, Chan Tsoon, Hok Shan, Kwan Tang, Ying Tak, Mu Yuen, Fook rounded from all directions. They may well become a household word Kong, Sam Shui, Tung Koon, Chung threw away the two stolen guns and in the world of art lovers. -
disperse realizing the Shan, Law Ting, Maw Ming, and the tried to Island of Hainan.
Dealers in Japanese goods in Canton have all been sent circular notifications by the pickets ordering them to come to the Headquarters Do serious casualties, although of the Committee and have their goods registered and pay a 30 per cent, ad valorem levy in accord- ance with the regulations of the Committee. This had to be done within three days of receiving the notification. Failure to do this, "or registering less than the actual quantity of Japanese goods will re-
futility of resisting any longer. Most inade good their escape but
four were caught and brought to THE BAN ON KUOMINTANG the Police Station. There were
several persons were hart many
PROPAGANDA.
windows were broken, tea cups [rnox oUR CHINESE CORRESPONDENT, smashed and tables overturned.. The two stolen guns and some of the cartridges were abandoned when the gang retreated and were picked up by the pursuing Police squad.
The robbers then moved off in the direction of Changch'in city. which a day or two after they en-
tered
These men are well-armed, and have several hundred horses...so that they can swoop down on un- suspecting towns and hamlets.
by
SUI, TAI" FIRE.
Ruling that there was no offence against the regulation, Mr. R. E. Lindsell dismissed the summons against the Hang Lam Chong wine and spint shop at No. 2, Ko Shing Street, for furnishing incorrect particulars in an application for the removal of 150 jars of Chinese were to have been wine which transhipped from the 5.8. Sui Tai to. the 3.5. Nam Sang. It will be remembered that nearly all the jara perished in the fire aboard the Sus Ta
Mr. B. C. K. Hawkins, Superin- tendent of Imports and Exports, prosecuted while Mr. M. K. Lo appeared on behalf of the defen- dants,
BUSSIAN STOWAWAY.
A Russian youth, Alexander Ivan Ivanoff, was charged before Major. C. Willson at the Central. Magistracy on Saturday with 3. Kaiping from Chinwangtan having stayed himself away on the Sentence of one month's hard- labour was patsed.
A POOR EXCUSE.
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A Chinese woman was fined $50 with the alternative of six weeks' imprisonment by Mr. W. Schoßeid at the 'Kowloon Magistracy for possession of a quantity of lottery The Fate Of Changchin. tickets. The woman said that the Changchiu city was supposed to parcel was given her by an un- be banditproof, but the armed rob-known man outside the Kowloon bers entered without much trouble Ferry Wharf with instructions to friends inside the city, hired Street. Divisional Inspector R. H. Marks said that the woman was one market day, helped, it is said, take it to an address in Shanghai soldiers from outside the haien. CANTON, Sept. 23rd.
On arrival in Changchin they arrested in Canton Road but when The Canton Political Council first of all few the five-striped she was given a chance to find the has decided to open negotiations flag, and then changed it for the man who gave her the parcel she with Hong Kong and the Straits Southern flag. They compelled could not do so.
The Magistrate convicted and Settlements with the idea of having the magistrate, who is virtually a the ban on Canton Kuomintang prisoner, to call in all the heads imposed a fine as stated.
+ welcome
in the sult in the seizure and confiscation and coal, held a meeting yesterday, new printed matter has long been new masters, and also compelled
newspapers and propaganda lifted of villages and of the goods concerned. Every mer
after which they went en masse to chant must have his goods of the Canton Chamber of Commerce to prohibited from entering into these, the chamber of commerce to cir Japanese origin registered before
not see why this should be so, within the haien that Chang Ming making him, a prisoner. They Tuesday, September 25th So far invoke its aid in their fight against places. The Canton regime does culate a telegram informing all sion of the magistrate's residence, Evidently only a very small per cent, of the the 30 per cent, levy. They were especially in view of the fact that Chiu was authorized to protect opened the prison doors and re- merchants have; registered their received most sympathetically by friendly relations have been resum the place, and was worthy of all leased the criminals.
they needed accommodation for Messrs. Chow Ting Pong and Wu
A day or two after, this same their own captives, over 800 such Japanese goods with the Committee. Chung Tong, President and Vice ed between Canton and Hong support. The great majority of them still re- President of the Chamber respec Kong.
Chang fed his troops out and open-being in their hands, waiting re main indifferent to the threats of the lively, and the Chamber promised
ly attacked Disochia and Chiu- demption by their relatives and Committee.
to take up their cause. After some
chun, two well-defended towns friends.
* Sale Of Arms. which successfully repelled the st. discussion the following resolutions MERCHANTS STILL PRO-
were unanimously passed:
backs of this so-called protector. From Chinese sources we hear of TESTING.
Refugees from Changchiu arti consignments of arms and powder ing is. Tinan, say that this man leaving Chowtsun and Tsinan for Chong has burnt to the ground the headquarters of the bandits. two villages south of Changchi These arma come from terrifory city, and that the glare Front the now in the possession of the burning homes could be seen from Japanese. The knowledge that in the railway, which is about seven cities near the railway line such
as Poshan, Chihch'usa, Tsingchow Ch'tung city has only an earthen fu, and Kinochow the properly Committee will also be given a copy taken by the bandits without a justice to the merchants The rampart to guard it, and was constituted Chinese officiala ore not permitted to function is said of the above resolutions. It is quite struggle. This was before they to encourage the lawless elements doubtful, however, whether the took wook Changch is city. On en in their belief that they will bë Government will side with the tering Ch'i-tung they took posses more or less immune to carry on merchants.
(Continued on next Column).
their plundering tactics
1. That no tax whatever should be levied on the merchants if their goods of Japanese origin arrived incent their stores prior to May 30th of this year.
Our correspondent has been told that the merchants have no objec tion to the registration of their goods of Japanese origin if they 2. That Japanese roads imported were assured that they would not into Canton between Jane lat and have to pay the 30 per cent. This 23th inclusive shogid pay tax is what they are opposing. They according to the method adopted by declare they will not pay, and the the Hankow Anti-Japanese Boycott whole question turns on this. The Committee in Hankow, which is as representatives of seven Hongs, in follows: Luxuries 10 per cent pluding dealers in piece goods, marine products, 3 per cent.; marine products, electrical wares, the zest, between 3 to 9 per cent.
(Continued at foot of next column.) (Continued on pest Column).
Thirdly, that Japanese goods im; Borled into Canton sabsequent to June 30th should pay a tax ne de- manded by the Committee 30 per The Canton Chamber of Com merce will send these resolutions to the Canton Political Council, the Provincial Administration and other Government organs of in- miles distant, q fluence, requesting them to do
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